Libertarian Librarian

I have no idea what, or even if, this means anything, but what the hey. I think it's at least mildly interesting. Particularly interesting, no state has more than one team left. North Carolina started with five-- only Duke is left. Pennsylvania started with four. Only Villanova is left. At this point, Washington, D.C. has as many teams left as either of those basketball-rich states.

Six of the final 16 were the sole representative of their state. Four states that started with three teams are now completely unrepresented in the sweet sixteen. Sadly, Wisconsin is one of them.

Here are the state by state records in the NCAA tourney after the first weekend:

Connecticut, 2-0, 1.000 (1 school initially, 1 school left)
Florida, 2-0, 1.000 (1 school initially, 1 school left)
Massachusetts, 2-0, 1.000 (1 school initially, 1 school left)
Oregon, 2-0, 1.000 (1 school initially, 1 school left)
Virgina, 2-0, 1.000 (1 school initially, 1 school left)
West Virginia, 2-0, 1.000 (1 school initially, 1 school left)
Texas, 3-1, .750 (2 schools initially, 1 school left)
Washington, D.C., 3-1, .750 (2 schools, 1 left)
Kansas, 2-1, .667 (2 schools, 1 left-- and it's NOT the Jayhawks)
Washington, 2-1, .667 (2 schools, 1 left)
Illinois, 3-2, .600 (3 schools, 1 left-- and it's NOT the Illini)
Louisiana, 3-2, .600 (3 schools, 1 left)
Tennesee, 3-2, .600 (3 schools, 1 left-- Bruce, what happened?)
Pennsylvania, 4-3, .571 (4 schools, 1 left)
California, 2-2, .500 (3 schools, 1 left)
North Carolina, 4-4, .500 (5 schools, 1 left)

Arizona, 1-1, .500 (1 school, 0 left)
Arkansas, 1-1, .500 (1 school, 0 left)
Indiana, 1-1, .500 (1 school, 0 left)
Montana, 1-1, .500 (1 school, 0 left)
Kentucky, 1-2, .333 (2 schools, 0 left)
Alabama, 1-3, .250 (3 schools, 0 left)
Ohio, 1-3, .250 (3 schools, 0 left)
Wisconsin, 1-3, .250 (3 schools, 0 left-- thanks for the one W, UWM!)
Colorado, 0-1, 0.000
Michigan, 0-1, 0.000
Nevada, 0-1, 0.000
South Carolina, 0-1, 0.000
Utah, 0-1, 0.000
Iowa, 0-2, 0.000
New Jersey, 0-2, 0.000
Oklahoma, 0-2, 0.000
New York, 0-3, 0.000

So, a big shout out to New York for being the most inept state this year!

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